Capone, "We Are Young"

This is how it should be more often. One of the great things about
rap
music is how quickly it can take a piece of pop culture and
interpolate it into hip-hop. The ease with which a hit song (in
this case, Fun’s
“Tonight”) can be sampled, looped up, and rhymed over, it’s why
rap is the most immediate—and sure, lots of times ephemeral and
disposable—vehicle for artistic commentary on the times we live in.
This was how 50 Cent rose to prominence ten years
ago, a steady stream of roughed-up music, quickly made, often
using pop songs or other rap songs that were on the radio, that
gave you a very clear idea of what he was thinking about the moment
he was recording them. He put them out on black market mixtapes and
everybody loved them. Because they were the very definition of
“fresh.” Like Biggie said, “It ain’t no more to
it.”